I am going to share with you a response that I received privately from American psychologist Dr. Kenneth Price of Dallas, Texas:

To Wisia Wedzicha,

I
am an American psychologist living in Dallas Texas. Formerly an
Assistant Professor at Southwestern Medical School, I am currently in
independent practice. My funded research projects were in the areas of
stress, cardiovascular disorders, migraine headaches, ptsd and
depression. I published in many refereed journals, including the New
England Journal of Medicine and in British journals such as the Journal
of Psychosomatic Research. I take very seriously the scientific
endeavor of medical and psychological research into understanding the
human condition, explicating human (and other mammalian) behavior and
ailments, methods of treatment and methods for improving the human
condition. Publishing results of research in appropriate journals is
the way scientists share their work, spread their ideas and findings and
make it possible for researchers to make advances in the assessment and
treatment of, say, illness, - allowing researchers outside our own labs
to further knowledge by “standing on the shoulders” of other
researchers, replicating or advancing previous findings and or theories.

The
sine qua non of published research or theoretical articles is that they
be honest and accurate, rigorous and objective. One of the ways the
quality of publications is assured is the tradition of reviewing
submitted articles by peers (not the House of Lords type) with
specialized knowledge of the subject of articles under review.

I
have come to be aware of the recent article you have published in the
online version of the Lancet, similar to an article you published in
2010, both of which are nothing less than political tracts, assaults on
truth, assaults on integrity, assaults on honesty and vile anti-Semitic
assaults masquerading as (un)reasoned attacks on the State of Israel for
imagined war crimes, imagined by the Jew-obsessed authors of this
despicable piece of drivel. Skimming the article, I found not a shred
of accuracy in any of the claims made against Israel in its ongoing war
against the Islamic Barbarians of Hamas. It is not my intention to
respond - to the best of my ability - to the farrago of lies and
distortions in this article. I shan’t waste my time. I shall leave it
to Israeli physicians,— on the ground witnesses to the inhuman crimes
of Hamas, which uses its civilians as human shields, while it lets fly
thousands of rockets aimed solely at Israeli civilians in farms, towns
and cities, without regard for the lives of Israeli men, women or
children, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze or whatever.

It
is my intention, though, to request a reply from you to the question of
why the Lancet would print an article that has nothing to do with
medicine, that is clearly a political, vicious and propagandistic attack
on Israel, the only decent, civilized, multi-ethnic, multi-racial,
multilingual law-abiding country in the Middle East, if not the world.
I doubt that this article was peer-reviewed or fact checked at all.
Given that you previously published a similar article during the last
Hamas aggression against Israel and received an adequate number of
responses from outraged readers complaining about the article’s lies and
distortions, I am puzzled why you would once again publish a submitted
article from known terrorist supporters (of the 9/11 attack on the
United States, for one thing), that would be more appropriate for a
journal like the Volkischer Beobachter or Der Sturmer? Why would you
sully the reputation of the Lancet by publishing a piece of trash,
drivel, — which, if you publish it in your print journal will forever
disgrace the Lancet and provide your imprimatur
for a vile piece of dreck that will serve as fodder and scientific
underpinning if not justification for the vilification of Jews and
Jewish doctors by anti-Semites and Islamist Jihadists around the world?

What
kind of people are you? I understand that in Great Britain the people
of your greatest city elected a Communist anti-Semite as mayor. The
anti-Semitic pap that flowed from his mouth was disgusting. But has the
scientific and medical community in the UK now descended to the depths
of disrepute and bowed to Islamist sovereignty by publishing Jihadist
claptrap and propaganda - false in its essence in every accusation- in
your (formerly?) most prestigious medical journal? Gentlemen, have you
no shame? At long last, have you no shame?

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